Crown and collective unconscious

The coronavirus, seen in an electron microscope.IMAGE POINT FR - LPN / BSIP / Universal Images Group via Getty

At times like the current one, when our consensual reality, our expectations and social conventions are bankrupt, due to the pandemic, the mechanisms of the collective unconscious operate with greater force. Along with the personal unconscious that his teacher Freud studied, the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung (1875-1961) identified a collective unconscious or objective psyche, made up of universal instincts and symbols. A kind of shared mental inheritance that would explain the continuity in time and across cultures of certain primal human images and habits. Thus, several authors have asked ...

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